celticdragonfly

So ConDFW finally got their programming schedule up, and we're looking through it. We paid for memberships ahead of time. We're not terribly impressed. There's NO social stuff going on Friday or Saturday nights at all. FenCon will be doing their room parties, but nothing hosted by the con. There are definitely panels we're interested in from 10 am Saturday to I think 4 pm Saturday. But that's it. And apparently no video rooms.

Now, often at cons, most of the really fun stuff we end up doing is not on the schedule at all. But I don't know of any friends of ours who are coming in from out of town, and I don't know of anyone throwing personal parties. The general socializing area at that hotel tends to be pretty smoke heavy, which knocks out the idea of what the heck, just go sit with my knitting until somebody interesting comes by.

We had been planning to get hotel rooms, but I'm not sure we're going to bother anymore. We may just see if we can get a babysitter to come to the house, where the kids have babyproofing and toys and such, for a chunk of the day Saturday. I suppose we'd probably eat dinner out there - there's a Chinese place I went to last year with friends that had a chicken dish I'd like to have again, and I don't think we'll have time for lunch, so I expect we'll want something before heading home. But I don't know if we'll stay beyond that. I'd like to stay for art show stuff - but if there's nothing later going on, it's probably not worth getting hotel rooms.

Sigh. Well, I expect way more of FenCon. This is disappointing, but then with them having Lois Bujold as GoH last year, we had so many friends there and so many things we just had to go to.

Well, there are those panels we want to go to, so I must get